Peter Sutcliffe
The art of the obituarist
In the wake of the Guardian’s controversial obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, Alex Larman considers the nuances of writing obits
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On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
Crisis? Watt crisis?
Renewable energy promises the gold at the end of a rainbow
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
Britain needs the Med mindset
We have to adapt to the sweatier realities of a changing climate
Britain’s next moral panic
Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
Class war in the upper house
The end of the Lords’ ancient
right to resolve peerage disputes
is the latest casualty of Labour’s
constitutional vandalism
Beware the British ICE
Mass deportation of Muslims will not solve antisemitism, but feed feelings of alienation
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
These violent delights
Pagliacci made the murder the true apex of the show